[discuss] Re: Before I will report a bug ...

2006-04-03 Thread Rod Engelsman

Tomas Lanczos wrote:

Hello everybody,

From the Open Office package I am using mostly the Impress together with the
Math to prepare my lectures - it is much better for scientific presentations
as the Power Point. The Math is very nice for mathematical expressions, but
it's less appropriate to write chemical reactions (however with some
limitations it works) - I'd like to remain this way that in the world are
much more chemists then mathematicians ... :-)

Well, today I found two functions in the Math which is not working: 
- the n-th root of x  - if I write following the Formula Reference Table

in the OOo help e.g. nroot {xyz} I will get nroot xyz , well I can use
instead e.g. sqrt {xyz} lsup n which looks more - less like I intented,
but ...

- the stack{...} simply  does not stacking the symbols, if I write e.g.
stack{abc} I get abc what is definitely not good.

So, my question is - am I doing something wrong or is it a bug?

Many thanks for every answer in advance

Tomas Lanczos
Dept. Geochemistry
Comenius University
Bratislava, Slovakia


Tomas,
  I can't say much about using it for chemistry (Geez, I hated 
chemistry class) but the other two work as advertised but the help isn't 
very clear on the syntax.


To get the nth root of x type:

nroot n x

To stack the variable a,b,c type:

stack{a#b#c}  --- curly brackets

Generally, I find that the formula editor works like a charm, but it can 
be a struggle figuring out what it wants for inputs sometimes.


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Rod

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RE: [discuss] Re: Before I will report a bug ...

2006-04-03 Thread Tomas Lanczos
 From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rod Engelsman

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 Tomas,
I can't say much about using it for chemistry (Geez, I 
 hated chemistry class) but the other two work as advertised 

But a chem editor would be very nice and a lot of people would appreciate
it, anyway ...:--)

 but the help isn't very clear on the syntax.
 
 To get the nth root of x type:
 
 nroot n x
 
 To stack the variable a,b,c type:
 
 stack{a#b#c}  --- curly brackets

Thank You it works, indeed!

 Generally, I find that the formula editor works like a charm, 
 but it can be a struggle figuring out what it wants for 
 inputs sometimes.

That's true, but when You know what to type then it's pretty fast, much
faster than the MS Equation Editor.

Regards

Tomas

  Rod

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